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The Long View 2006-04-10: The Iran War; Biography; The Truth about immigration

John Reilly said this in 2006, and I think he's still right: I am sure I am repeating myself, but there are just three things to keep in mind with regard to the immigration crisis: (1) The disposition of illegals currently in the country is almost irrelevant. (2)

Linkfest 2017-06-23

The Stock Market Speaks: How Dr. Alchian Learned to Build the Bomb Sometimes public information is the best spy you have. I saw a series of Tweets this week about how the boss-class is sticking it to workers, usually with the active involvement of the political Left. You expect that

The Long View 2005-04-24: Sleepers: Issues & Diets

Under my heading nothing ever changes, we have this prescient post from John Reilly in 2005 where he correctly intuits that immigration will be the largest domestic political problem across the West. He also notes that the character of the problem is quite different in different places, since the typical

The Long View 2004-10-14: The Third Debate & the Unmentionable Elephants in the Room

I always found John's stance on immigration pretty reasonable. I think this is a pretty good summary, in John's own words: ...almost every other domestic problem they discussed was a product of continuously high levels of immigration: downward pressure on wages; rising income inequality; the growing

The Long View 2004-01-08: The Martian Frontier

If you needed some proof of my contention that it wasn't only right-wingers that were crazy after 9/11, here is Thomas Friedman, nobody's idea of right-wing nut, calling 9/11 the start of World War III. While not right-wing, he was a nut. There isn&

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can

LinkFest 2016-03-04

Liberal, Harsh Denmark Scandinavian welfare states work best when they stay largely Scandinavian. The Revolt of the Comedians: Tina Fey Edition When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt came out, my wife said to me, "It is all one big race joke." How Trump Rules Twitter From the Twitter timeline of